by Brad Taylor | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Ten Books Books That Will Explain Current Strife in the World I write military counter-terrorism thrillers, which, by design, have to parse the world into neat shades of black and white, with perhaps a touch of gray thrown in. My protagonist, Pike Logan, has to have a...
by Tim Baker | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Ten of the Most Notorious Kidnappings FRANK SINATRA JR. This sensational kidnapping had all the hallmarks of a classic noir thriller: the only son of a Hollywood star snatched at gunpoint from a nightclub dressing room. To arrange his son’s quarter-million-dollar...
by Matthew Carr | May 31, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Ten Ways to Break the Law in 16th Century Spain From the perspective of a twenty-first-century secular democracy that upholds religious pluralism, gender equality, and LBGT rights, sixteenth-century Spain was a harsh and unforgiving place. Though some crimes, such as...
by Tom Fox | May 4, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime, Writing Tips
Thrillers and secret societies seem to be a perpetual trend. What lies behind this fascination? The first thing I’d like to say is that while I am a terrific fan of a good secret-society thriller, Dominus is a story that I wrote, in part, to challenge some of the...
by Stefan Thunberg and Anders Roslund | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
The true story of a spree of bank robberies that shook Sweden is finally told in a new book titled The Father… Q: STEFAN, WHEN DID YOU FIGURE OUT THAT YOUR BROTHERS WERE BANK ROBBERS? A: I was in my early twenties, studying at an art school in Stockholm in 1990....
by Andrew Case | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
The paramedic couldn’t remember what had happened. That’s what she said, anyway. I was asking her to describe the position of a handcuffed man she had been called to treat over a year before. I had worked like hell to prepare for this moment. If she gave me one...